Gas Giant

 So today the Littlest Dictator is going to take executive action to add regulations on new and existing power plants -- as opposed, I suppose, to the old non-existent ones:

The linchpin of Obama's plan involves new and existing power plants. Forty percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, and one-third of greenhouse gases overall, come from electric power plants, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.

Let's put aside for a moment the point that carbon dioxide is highly unlikely to be a heat-trapping gas when it comprises less than 1% of the atmosphere, as it currently does and as it has probably as long as there have been mammals on the planet.  Consider instead that forty percent of carbon dioxide emissions are the result of generating electricity. 

You want to do something about carbon dioxide?  Cut electric consumption.  I suggest we start by deporting all of the people in this country who have come across our borders illegally.  Not only would that reduce the demand for electric power, it would cut emissions from leaf-blowers by at least fifty percent. 

My second suggestion would be a ban on all plug-in electric vehicles.   The next time you have a conversation with a self-righteous driver of a plug-in, remind them that they are responsible for forty percent of all CO2.  They should also try to cut down on exhaling if they are really serious. 

Remember all those "clunkers" that the government gave away my money to get rid of?  The cars that replaced them were built with electricity.  I think it is time the government work on a little consistency.  The left hand of darkness needs to get a clue as to what the right hand is doing. 

Unfortunately, instead we will simply be forced to pay higher prices for electricity, and densely populated areas will likely suffer more rolling black-outs in the future as supply fails to meet demand.  Too bad they won't happen in D.C.